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A journey into the deaf-world
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American Deaf CultureEducationDeaf CultureIndigenous LanguageInclusive EducationCultural DiversityLanguage StudiesAmerican Sign LanguageWorld CulturesMulticulturalismHuman HearingHearing LossSign LanguageCultureNew Language MinorityAnthropologyCochlear ImplantAmerican Sign Language LinguisticsSpeech PerceptionDeaf PeopleCultural AnthropologyDeaf Studies
The Deaf‑World, a tight‑knit community of millions in the U.S. and worldwide, is a distinct language minority with its own history, culture, and political agenda that has long been misunderstood.
A new language minority has come to the fore in America and around the world. It is the tight-knit society -- some million strong in the United States -- that calls itself, in American Sign Language, the Deaf-World. It has a history, a flourishing culture, and a political agenda. A Journey into the Deaf-World is the compelling story of this much misunderstood minority as it struggles for self-determination. Journey address questions such as these: What is Deaf culture all about?; How are Deaf children raised and educated and how should they be?; What do signed language and Deaf culture have to offer the Deaf child -- and hearing people?; What can we learn from Deaf societies in other lands?; How does technology help -- and hinder -- Deaf people?; How to Deaf people integrate into the larger society?.